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Trump moves to gut more agencies, targeting Voice of America, libraries, clean energy and National Monuments

Trump has signed an executive order seeking to eliminate several additional federal agencies, including one that oversees the federally funded media outlet
⭐️Voice of America (VOA),
🔥testing the limits of his authoritative power as he seeks to shrink the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy.

One order signed Friday night calls for the agencies
— some of which are focused on #minority business enterprises, #museum and #library services and #homelessness prevention
— to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”

It also instructs the heads of agencies to “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,”
and submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget director #Russell #Vought confirming full compliance within seven days.

A second executive order revoked 19 executive actions signed by President Joe Biden that promoted #clean #energy and environmental goals.

The order terminates proclamations of #national #monuments created by Biden
and ends the use of the Defense Production Act to expand the U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technology
(including mandates for electric heat pumps and #solar #panels),
among other Biden-era policies
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Trump moves to gut several agencies, targeting Voice of America, librariesBy Brianna Tucker
The Viennese architects coophimmelb(l)au were commissioned to build the new Musée des Confluence. coophimmelb(l)au designed a UFO that hovers like a silvery cloud over the mouth of the Saône and Rhône rivers. This daring landmark architecture - similar to the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg or the capital's airport in Berlin - turned out to be a spectacular multi-million-dollar disaster. But the image gain quickly outweighed these disadvantages. Access to the museum is via a beautiful park along the banks of the Saône, which invites visitors to take a relaxing stroll. #architektur #architekturfotografie #architecture #architecturephotography #modernarchitecture #bnw #urban #urbanism #urbanphotography #lyon #france #museum

The Skiff La Yole 1875 Renoir The National Gallery London England

This sunlit scene on the river Seine is typical of the imagery that has come to characterise Impressionism, and Renoir includes several familiar Impressionist motifs such as fashionably dressed women, a rowing boat, a sail boat, and a steam train crossing a bridge.

fineartamerica.com/featured/th

#TheSkiff #Renoir #NationalGallery #Museum #London #England #FineArt #Painting #landscape #travel #Photography

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Relatedly: if anyone you know needs some extra help with equitable evaluation or research projects (data collection, analysis, study design) or strategic planning, I'd greatly appreciate contacts or connections!

My website has a sampling of my previous collaborators - mostly in the glam and nonprofit sector. I'm most proud + humbled that I learned from and worked with the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, and I'd like to put that to work!

New Menopause exhibit opens March 1st in London, UK at the @vagina_museum

Menopause: What’s Changed? takes you on a tour from menopause in the past through to the burning issues which face us in the present day.
vaginamuseum.co.uk/exhibitions

They had to start a GoFundMe because none of the 15 arts and heritage funders they approached wanted to support an exhibition on menopause! They are still taking donations: gofundme.com/f/r9tszw

Vagina MuseumVagina Museum: Upcoming exhibitions — Vagina MuseumMenopause: What's Changed? Opening February 2024.

ProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law

Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
propublica.org/article/native-

ProPublicaProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law
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